The World Athletics Council has selected Tokyo, Japan, to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/tokyo-host-2025-world-athletics-championships
It is expected that up to 1400 athletes from over 60 nations will compete in the heart of the Alps.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/world-mountain-and-trail-running-championship
World Athletics has launched the pre-qualification for hosting the World Athletics Relays 2024.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/pre-qualification-for-hosting-2024-world-athl
World Athletics has launched the pre-qualification for the next two editions of the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, taking place in 2024 and 2026.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/pre-qualification-2024-2026-world-athletics-r
'RUN - The Athlete Refugee Team Story', shares the incredible and inspirational story of the Athlete Refugee Team (ART), from its formal beginnings in early 2017 through the outbreak of the Covid...
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/documentary-film-run-the-athlete-refugee-team
It would be understandable for anyone to be fazed by the presence of an athlete like the ground-breaking Eliud Kipchoge in their event. But for Swiss marathon record-holder Tadesse Abraham, compe...
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/tadesse-abraham-world-refugee-day
Tachlowini Gabriyesos, newly – very newly – selected for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Games, is a restless presence on screen as our Zoom call starts.
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/refugee-olympic-team-gabriyesos-tokyo
World champions Karsten Warholm, Yulimar Rojas, Tajay Gayle, Anzhelika Sidorova and Kelsey-Lee Barber are among the first stars confirmed for the Meeting Herculis EBS – part of the Wanda Diamon...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/monaco-herculis-2021-warholm-rojas-gayle
“Sport has that power to change a life,” says Rose Nathike Lokonyen, smiling down the camera from her base in Ngong, Kenya. “Especially for refugees.”
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/refugee-olympic-team-lokonyen-tokyo
Francisco Belo, Fanny Roos and Ama Pipi were among the many athletes to break a meeting record at the Kladno hází a Kladenské Memoriály – a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting �...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/kladno-kladenske-memorialy-belo-roos-pipi
With the exception of the football World Cup, there’s simply no stage in sport that can rival the Olympic Games – its global reach, its captive audience, the knowledge participants have that ...
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/dorian-keletela-sprinter-olympic-refugee-team
Last Tuesday’s confirmation that Anjelina Nadai Lohalith had been picked for the Refugee Olympic Team for a second successive Games was cause for celebration – and the 28-year-old 1500m runne...
https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/refugee-olympic-team-lohalith-tokyo
China’s Zheng Ninali and Jiri Sykora of the Czech Republic came out on top at the Arona Combined Events meeting, the Spanish leg of the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events, held this ...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/arona-zheng-ninali-jiri-sykora
European indoor silver medallist Fanny Roos extended her own Swedish record to 19.33m at the Folksam Grand Prix – a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting – in Sollentuna on Sunday (...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/atleticageneve-2021-magi-debjani
Sifan Hassan will test her speed once again when she races the mile at the Muller British Grand Prix – a Wanda Diamond League meeting – at Gateshead International Stadium on 13 July.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/british-grand-prix-gateshead-hassan
Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson will meet in the 200m, while a 400m hurdles field featuring Dalilah Muhammad and Femke Bol has been announced for the Bauhaus-Galan, a Wanda Diamond Leag...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/stockholm-2021-asher-smith-richardson-muhamma
Athletes will have Olympic qualification in mind when they head to the Meeting Internacional Arona in Tenerife on 12-13 June.
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/meeting-internacional-arona-2021
In what may be the most impressive victory of his short but brilliant career, 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen upset an exceptional 5000m field, including both the world champion and world record-h...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/florence-2021-ingebrigtsen-hassan
Middle-distance runners Abel Kipsang, Jemma Reekie and Collins Kipruto were among the athletes to break a meeting record at the Meeting de Marseille – a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze ...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/meeting-marseille-kipsang-reekie-kipruto
The 2021 Wanda Diamond League continues on Thursday (10), with Florence welcoming many of the world’s best athletes for the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea.
There was inspiration aplenty to be found in the venue for today’s Wanda Diamond League press conference, the splendidly decorated main salon of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with its soarin...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/florence-diamond-league-cheptegei-hassan-ashe
In a country that loves its throwing, Marcin Krukowski and Wojciech Nowicki put on an exhibition for local fans on the second evening of the Paavo Nurmi Games – a World Athletics Continental To...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/paavo-nurmi-games-turku-2021
Seven refugee athletes will compete in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, part of a squad of 29 announced today (8) by the International Olympic Committee.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/refugee-olympic-team-tokyo
Fresh from her heroics at the FBK Games in Hengelo, world record-breaker Sifan Hassan will again take centre stage at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Florence on...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/florence-diamond-league-2021-hassan-cheptegei
The 2021 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series continues on Monday (7) and Tuesday (8) with the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland.
Two decades after she made her first appearance at the meeting, world record-holder Barbora Spotakova notched up her 10th javelin victory at the Odlozil Memorial, winning with 60.21m at the World...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/odlozil-memorial-prague-2021-spotakova
Sifan Hassan continued to make history by smashing the world 10,000m record with a time of 29:06.82 at the FBK Games.
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/fbk-games-hengelo-world-record-hassan
All eyes will be on the hammer throw circle in Turku, Finland, this week as two titans of the event – Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel Fajdek – fine-tune their Olympic preparations at the Paavo Nur...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/paavo-nurmi-games-turku-wlodarczyk-fajdek
The USA’s Trayvon Bromell stormed to seventh on the world 100m all-time list on Saturday (5) by running a world-leading 9.77 (1.5m/s) at the NACAC New Life Invitational – a World Athletics Co...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/new-life-invitational-miramar-bromell
Spain's European bronze medallist Diego Garcia and Colombia's world fifth-placer Sandra Lorena Arenas were successful at the Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruna – the Spanish leg of this year�...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/la-coruna-2021-garcia-arenas
The 40th edition of the FBK Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Hengelo looks set to be celebrated with fireworks on the track and field on Sunday (6), with talk of w...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/fbk-games-hengelo-2021-hassan-duplantis
Jamaica's double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is among the large field of world-class athletes listed for action at the inaugural North American, Central American and Caribbean A...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/new-life-invitational-thompson-herah-bromell
Five world champions, four Olympic gold medallists and two world record-holders are set to compete at the FBK Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Hengelo on Sunday (6...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/fbk-games-hengelo-duplantis-hassan-asher-smit
Portugal’s Auriol Dongmo provided the main highlight at the 16th Meeting Iberoamericano, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting, thanks to a 19.75m shot put throw on Thursday (3).
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/meeting-iberoamericano-huelva-dongmo-bradshaw
After last year’s cancellation because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruna ¬– the Spanish leg of this year’s World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking – returns on...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/race-walking-challenge-la-coruna-2021
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare produced the first sub-11-second 100m run on Slovak soil when winning at the P-T-S Meeting – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver competition – in Samorin o...
After a string of 200m victories and some swift – albeit wind-assisted – times over 100m in the past two months, 17-year-old Erriyon Knighton finally entered the record books with his 20.11 2...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/erriyon-knighton-world-u18-best-200m
Damian Warner had gone into the Hypo Meeting aiming to become the event’s first six-time winner but he ended up making history in other ways at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/hypo-meeting-gotzis-2021
Kenya’s Purity Rionoripo and Benson Kipruto were first past the post at the inaugural edition of The Battle of the Teams in Prague on Sunday (30), winning the World Athletics Label Road Race in...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/battle-teams-prague-2021-rionoripo-kipruto
Nigeria’s Ese Brume and USA’s Maggie Malone made history at the Chula Vista Field Festival, setting area and national records respectively at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeti...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/chula-vista-field-festival-2021
World 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith will fine-tune her preparations for the Olympic Games when she races in Gateshead on 13 July, following confirmation that the Wanda Diamond League series will...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/asher-smith-diamond-league-gateshead-july-202
The Meeting Herculis EBS will welcome some of the world’s best athletes to Monaco just two weeks out from the Olympic Games in Tokyo and among those competing at the Louis II Stadium on 9 July ...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/tamberi-rojas-bedrani-monaco-2021
The Olympic season really started to warm up in Doha on Friday (28) as a series of world-leading performances and meeting record were achieved at the Wanda Diamond League event in Qatar’s capit...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/world-leads-meeting-records-doha-2021
While the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday (28) is an important step for many athletes on the road to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, for Mutaz Barshim it also represents a key mileston...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/doha-diamond-league-barshim-benjamin-fraser-p
Canada’s multiple global medallist Damian Warner will aim to become the Hypo Meeting’s first six-time winner when he competes at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events meeting in G...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/gotzis-hypo-meeting-2021-warner
Thirty-two athletes who earned medals at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 – including 12 champions – will return to the Qatari capital on Friday (28) for the second Wanda Diamond L...
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/doha-diamond-league-rojas-norman-richardson
Five-time winner Anita Wlodarczyk will return to the Istvan Gyulai Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/wlodarczyk-global-medallists-szekesfehervar
Double world champion Sifan Hassan and Olympic gold medallist Faith Kipyegon will go head-to-head over 1500m at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, on 10 June.
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/golden-gala-florence-hassan-kipyegon
If there is an image to epitomise the camaraderie within the pole vault, the photograph of Mondo Duplantis holding an umbrella over Sam Kendricks to protect him from the Gateshead elements would ...
https://worldathletics.org/news/news/gateshead-pole-vault-kendricks-duplantis
Meeting records fell in all four hurdles races at the adidas Boost Boston Games – part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series – with world record-holders Grant Holloway and Kendr...
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/adidas-boost-boston-games-harrison-holloway-s